Letter: GOP should take back its party

GOP should take back its party

Posted: November 4, 2013 - 1:10am

GOP should take back its party

Gov. Rick Perry is engaging in “cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face” politics. He is so determined to obstruct anything President Obama supports he is willing to do it at the health and economic detriment of Texas citizens.

Texas leads the nation in the uninsured. Gov. Perry is refusing to implement a Medicaid program the federal government will pay entirely the first three years. This will prevent major illness and save many lives among the needy.

To put politics ahead of the welfare of people is shameful and disgraceful and certainly not the Christian thing to do.

My honest opinion is the tea party has transformed the Republican Party into the party of evil. The Republicans love to brag about Ronald Reagan and how great he was, but Reagan couldn’t make it currently as a Republican. He would have to be a tea partier.

Instead of the Republicans shouting, “Let’s take back our country,” they should be shouting, “Let’s take back our party.”

Republicans, stop the meanness, hatefulness and deceitfulness your party has become. This country needs, for the sake of democracy and its citizens, two sensible, loving and compromising parties.

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The sad part is that the Tea Partiers are funded by a few (two?) very wealthy people. Those who spend so much money to spread hate and divisiveness in our country are hurting the country, not helping it.

When I see and hear the propaganda that they spread, I wonder if they really care about the country. I remember hearing stories in WWII, that enemy soldiers would surrender to our troops instead of allowing themselves to be taken by soldiers from other countries because they trusted that they would be treated fairly.

With our dysfunctional Congress in the news all the time, I wonder what the rest of the world thinks? I suspect some actually enjoy watching our country's problems.

I agree with Perry Minner, it most certainly is the Tea Party. In the case of the Tea Party, Mr. Minner makes a great case for both. If the Tea Party base does not have the intellectual capacity to understand that not having the Medicaid expansion is costing the state lives and money, that would be ignorance. If they know this and continue to allow it, that is pure hate. The Republicans who are not blinded by animosity, ignorance, and ideology need to take a stand.

I think when people from other countries look at the US, they can't understand how parts of it, like Texas, became so regressive and hateful.

Mr. Minner makes a point the TPers seem to miss. The federal govt. will subsidize the Medicaid expansion and some politicians are too selfish and stupid to grasp the fact. It makes no sense for our state leaders to reject this opportunity. This simply costs Texans more money and puts us behind as the country creaks and groans its way to the ACA. Why the state leaders want to cause harm to their own citizens is wrong.

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx

I just looked some of the Hine's photos. They remind me of my grandmother's childhood photos. She raised me as a young grandmother.
She gre up in our area during the depression and dust bowl. I agree with you. If we don't get a handle on the nations inequality and climate change, crops, etc., well see photos like this again in our lifetime.

My mother was the eldest child, and even though she was female, she was expected to do the work an eldest son would do. It took the whole family during the Great Depression to make a living. That's why she always declared that my sister and I would NEVER work in the field as she had to do. I guess we had it pretty soft by comparison.

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx

that it is really all libs and the White House who are dragging your numbers down, and that you are taking the GOTP back from the GOP.

"I comment about once a month, mainly because I work, raise a family, attend church, ......... and other things that liberals don't do."

Can you support that statement with some kind of facts, or are you just shoveling guano here? Since I know quite a few liberals who are working, raising families, and also go to church, I got to label your statement as shoveling guano.

Folks in the GOTP/Extreme Religious Right, abusing gay and lesbian teens is being discussed on another thread. Would a statement along the lines of, "Maybe you GOTP/ERRs are too busy molesting and abusing gay and lesbian teens to have time to post here" be guano also?

I'd say that it has as much validity as the other statement.

Truth, or guano? I don't go to church, so what you say is partially true. Maybe what I say is partially true too.

I see and hear nothing but fear from liberals and democrats at the mention of Ted Cruz. Could it be that he is the voice of the people who are sick and tired of government with their socialist/marxist agenda telling the people what is good for them and trying to run every aspect of their lives. That voice is growing and getting louder. Yes liberals and democrats be afraid, be very afraid.

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx

"Governor Perry is smart for looking ahead. California didn't bankrupt itself overnight. We must resist the easy federal money to remain solvent in the long run." (what in the heck does this even mean, opinionated?)

Well let's see, the Gube Perry sure didn't mind taking fed stimulus in an attempt to balance the budget.

"Turns out Texas was the state that depended the most on those very stimulus funds to plug nearly 97% of its shortfall for fiscal 2010, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Even budget deficits are bigger in Texas

Texas, which crafts a budget every two years, was facing a $6.6 billion shortfall for its 2010-2011 fiscal years. It plugged nearly all of that deficit with $6.4 billion in Recovery Act money, allowing it to leave its $9.1 billion rainy day fund untouched.

"Stimulus was very helpful in getting them through the last few years," said Brian Sigritz, director of state fiscal studies for the National Association of State Budget Officers, said of Texas.

Even as Perry requested the Recovery Act money, he railed against it. On the very same day he asked for the funds, he set up a petition titled "No Government Bailouts."

"Texas is in trouble too. State lawmakers last week unveiled an austere budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal years that cuts $31 billion in spending. Schools, colleges, Medicaid and social services for the needy will be hit especially hard."

Sure, opinionated, the fact that we dole out in the state of Texas 19 billion dollars a year in corporate welfare and it hasn't helped much either. We stink nationally with the our rankings in public schools and in healthcare we lead nationally with the highest percentage of uninsured. We rank 11th highest in poverty nationally. So essentially Perry has made us dumb, sick, and poor.

Thanks Gube for not following the California model. They are the largest economy in the country and have better public school and universities. They are set to have a balanced budget in a year and they have better jobs and healthcare. Thanks gube for not allowing this nightmare to happen here. They have a higher minimum wage and labor laws to boot. Why would we want that here in our state that has the highest proportion of hourly wage jobs in the country that pay at or below the minimum wage? That would be crazy.

Edit: Don't even start on the air quality in Texas or our environmental records. We stink.

" My mother was the eldest child, and even though she was female, she was expected to do the work an eldest son would do." whould this not be a working definition of equality???

"Gov. Perry is refusing to implement a Medicaid program the federal government will pay entirely the first three years. " Newsflash......The government does not make money, when you say the government what you mean is the tax payer, the government does not "work" it produces nothing and sells nothing, as such the government is NOT paying diddly...........the tax payer is the one paying!

"Republicans, stop the meanness, hatefulness and deceitfulness your party has become. This country needs, for the sake of democracy and its citizens, two sensible, loving and compromising parties."

Meanness...which party refused to even read bills pertaining to vetrans affairs, medical research or access to PUBLIC owned lands, during the "slow down"? Or is that just not mean?

Hatefulness..... I have not seen anyone here who is republican calling anyone a racist, a sexist, but I did read this: ""Maybe you GOTP/ERRs are too busy molesting and abusing gay and lesbian teens to have time to post here" be guano also?

Deceitfulness: " Yes you can keep your plan, no your rates will go down, yes everything will be covered, yes you will choose the cover you desire...." paraphraising, but you get the idea, who is lying more????

As for two perties of compromise, firstly, both parties are liars and are there only for their own good and not for that of the public, but for the party in power to even refuse to discuss anything takes away the ability to compromise.

"Ted is channeling his crazy father much more frequently".....This goes back to the bit before, but you vilify Ted Cruze for wanting a delay, and even having the temerity to suggest scrapping Obamacare,....now where is the outrage from the government (Obama), doing the same thing he was vilifed for suggesting, and delaying the thing? Yes, I think you are afraid of Ted Cruz, sorry but there you go,...

This is straight from Rules for Radicals "* RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions". Ring a bell my socialist friends???

He is one sick man and to think he could have a shot at being a Senator is frightening.

These folks scare even conservative people. They live in an alternate reality. One part of me would like to see this continue so we can win more seats in the house and Senate, but the amount of hate they spew is dangerous.

You bring great examples to the discussion that this letter was meant to promote. Some of the more moderate conservatives are sick of this cult of stupidity and hate. And yes, if anyone has listened to Cruz's father, that is cult like behavior. It has all the hallmarks.

I don't know what the heck is going on with the moderation process around here, but your comments are relevant to the conversation and topic. I've had many of mine deleted to. Just because a comment is flagged doesn't always mean it should be removed.

Some people simply can't handle the truth that Barton and Cruz represent everything that is wrong with the GOTP/ERR.

The proof of that has been amply demonstrated by the repeated deletion of my comments about "Carnival" Ted Cruz and his crazy father, and Barton's potential campaign for office in Texas (which are clearly relevant to Mr. Minner's letter).

But, once again, I will provide a link to Rafael Cruz's latest ravings as evidence: